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Bologna 1 Internazionale 2: Inter warm up with Recoba double

IN EAGER anticipation of Newcastle’s Champions League visit on Tuesday, the Inter fans made an attempt to impress English spies by hoisting a banner bearing the legend, ‘Christian Vieri: Simple the Best’. Like most things about their team last night, the effort displayed was valiant, but ultimately lacking in accuracy.

Vieri was given time off before stalking Sir Bobby Robson’s charges, and his teammates had to rely on a delicious late lob from Alvaro Recoba to pilfer the points.

Problems have come in threes for Inter of late. Their previously serene progression towards the quarter-finals of the Champions League was rudely arrested by a 3-0 trouncing at the hands of Barcelona a fortnight ago, and a similarly hefty dismantling by Juventus last week usurped them from the head of Serie A. Here, though, the figure bore positive portents.